Joel Adejola
I'm a junior at the University of Kansas studying philosophy and physics — switched from engineering because they taught execution without the foundation execution rests on. The questions that stayed with me were about warrant: whether the claim you're acting on has earned the confidence being placed in it.
The through-line, as best I can trace it: who gets believed, and why. I've been asking it in football analytics, in epistemology of testimony, in student government, in investigative journalism — and the same gap keeps appearing. The measurement infrastructure people act on rarely examines what it's actually measuring.
STATSWING is where I'm acting on that first: sports decision infrastructure covering 14,800+ players across 21 leagues, with research publications, player assessment grades, and a public analytics dashboard. Dialectic is the broader substrate — persistent AI collaboration with provenance, critique, and operator authority baked in. SCOUTSWING is a fan-facing product surface for the World Cup ramp, and BallerzBantz is the football writing and analytics archive that made STATSWING legible, still live as a register and dashboard.
Before any of that: I worked as an investigative journalist at the ICIR in Nigeria — covered the 2022 World Cup, investigated N2bn in abandoned fire-fighting equipment at Abuja Stadium, wrote about voter registration suppression. I spent five semesters as a Writing Center consultant at KU, where I watched AI make a pre-existing gap legible: the gap between task compliance and genuine understanding predated large language models entirely. I also spent a summer as an engineering intern at Texas Instruments working on GaN motor-driver technology, and authored Senate Resolution 2025-304 correcting a misapplication of federal employment law by KU Housing — it passed the General Assembly and was transmitted to the Chancellor.
I am a fashion model, mostly runway and high fashion. The aesthetic work and the analytical work aren't as separate as they look from outside.
My thesis is the longer argument connecting all of this. My writing is where I try to make it concrete — across football, philosophy, and journalism. My research is where the measurement work lives, including Dialectic. If you've seen me speak or want to, there's a press page. Shorter thoughts — things that don't need a full essay — go into notes.